It seems that despite the discovery of what has been described as a 4,000 year-old Bronze Age site which is unique in Europe, the local council are going ahead with their plans to build a road through Rotherwas Ribbon, which they say will give better access to a nearby industrial estate. *correction: people have [...]
July 6, 2007
Mount Toba Eruption – Ancient Humans Unscathed, Study Claims
At about 74,000 years ago, Mount Toba on the island of Sumatra erupted in a massive explosion that supposedly rocked the Middle Palaeolithic world to its very foundations, bringing contemporary human populations to their knees, reducing the global population level to around 15,000 individuals, thereby precipitating a so-called bottle-neck of human evolution, as proposed by [...]
July 6, 2007
Raising The Level: Orangutans Use Water As A Tool
From the current edition of Biology Letters published by the Royal Society, comes this intriguing experiment conducted by a research team at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, with the help of some obliging orangutans; here’s the abstract…
We investigated the use of water as a tool by presenting five orangutans (Pongo abelii) with an [...]
